Machine for forming fillers for cigars



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L. P. WINTER. MACHINE FOR FORMING FILLERS FOR CIGARS.

NQ.'504,100. Patented Aug. 29, 1893.

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L. F. WINTER. MACHINE FOR FORMING PILLERS FDR GIGARS. No. 504,100.

Patented Aug. 29, 1893.

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:L. 1". WINTER. MACHINE FOR FORMING FILLBRS'FOR CIGARS.

.No. 504;100.. Patented Aug. 29, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

LOUIS F. WINTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO LEON A. KLEIN AND JOSEPH DELA MAR, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 504,100, dated August 29, 1893. Application filed November 30, 1892- Serlal No. 453,671. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Forming Fillers for Cigars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine in which there can be no waste or [0 loss of tobacco, and further to discharge the filler in perfect shape on the binder. 3

I have not deemed it necessary to show all the driving mechanism required for this machine, inasmuch as said driving mechanism may be like that shown and fully described in the patent to J. Dela Mar, No. 461,072, of October 13,1891, and to which reference may be had.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1, is

a side elevation of a machine embodying my improvement. Fig. 2, is a plan View thereof. Fig. 3, is a vertical longitudinal section on a scale somewhat enlarged. Fig. 4, is a section of a portion of the machine showing certain 2 5 tobacco receivers in line ready for the operation of an ejector. Fig.5, is a detail of arear elevation. Fig. 6, is a top or plan view of a roll table employed. Fig. 7, is a transverse section thereof.

ignates a platform or bed plate supported by suitable legs A, to which cross-bars are attached to support bearings for certain .parts of the machine. I

5 A designates the driving shaft having a gear wheel meshing with a gear wheel A mounted on a shaft A.

B is a table mounted on standards extending upward from the bed plate A. Forward of the table B, a guide-way a, is arranged and in which a carrier or, is reciprocated to carry a filler holder B, beneath a vertically reciprocating plunger B and to move the empty filler holder away from the plunger after the 5 filler shall have been ejected. The filler holder B, is open at top and bottom and the opening through it is substantially cigarshaped in cross section. Theholder B, is removable from the carrier 0,, so that while one holder is being moved forward to the plunger Referring by letter to the drawings, A, desan attendant may be filling another one to take the place of the returned empty one. A cigar-shaped throat-way B is fixed at the for-' ward end of the guide-way a, in line with the plunger B and over which the holder B, comes to rest when the filler is ejected therefrom.

O, O, designate shearing blades movable horizontally in ways b, to cut or trim the filler between the throat-way B and mold B, when the parts B, B B are in the position, one above the other, as shown in Fig. 4.. The mold B is supported by a carrier b, that is reciprocated in ways 19* supported from the bed plate A. The mold containing a filler of tobacco is movable from beneath the throatway B to the position shown in Fig. 3, beneath a vertically reciprocating ejector B which operates to force the filler from the mold B onto a roll apron, as will be herein after described.

I will now describe the means for causing the movements of the parts above mentioned.

D, designates arms extending from a rock shaft 0, which is rocked by means of a crank as shown and described in the patent above referred to. These arms D, at their upper ends are turned at an angle to the main portion, as shown at c ,and links D extend from a pivotal connection with the ends of these portions 0, to a pivotal connection with the ends of the carrier 17. The carrier a has link connections 0 with the upper ends of fulcrumed levers D which are arranged in line with the movement of lugs extending inward from the parts 0, of the arms D, so that when the arms D, are operated to move the carrier 1), rearward the lugs will contact with the levers D and rock said levers so as to move the carrier a forward. The shearing blades 0, O, 0 have link connections (1, with crank arms 61, extended from rock shafts (1 Each rock shaft (1 has at one end a crank arm d and these crank arms 01 are connected together by means of a link 61 so that the shafts d 5 will be simultaneously rocked 'to cause the blades 0, O, to move in opposite directions. Motion is imparted to the rock shafts (1 and consequently to the blades O, O, by means of a cam E, mounted on the shaft A which roe serves at the proper time, to rock an angle lever E, which is fulcrumed at its angle to a fixed portion of the machine frame as shown, and has at its upper end a link connection E with one of the crank arms (1 The plunger B is connected to a cross head F, and the ejector B is connected to a cross-head F. These cross-heads are operated vertically by means precisely similar to those shown in the patent before referred to, and need not be further described here. I prefer the plunger 13 to have a yielding pressure on the filler in the parts B, B B and to provide means for regulating the pressure to pack the filler to any desired degree. With this end in view, the plunger has a yielding connection with the cross-head F. Rods f, extend upward from the plunger and loosely through holes in the cross-head; one of these rods f, here shown as the middle one, has a lug f, extended into a slot in alever f pivoted at one end to the cross-head (see Fig. 5) and having aweightF adjustably mounted on its free end; obviously by moving the weight along the lever the pressure of the plunger may be regulated.

I will now describe the means for rolling the filler. G, is a carriage movable back and forth on the bed plate A. It has arms g, pivotally connected at one end to the carriage and at the other end, pivotally connected to the arms D, at the junction of the main portion with the portion 0'. The movement of the arms D, imparts a to-and-fro movement to the carriage G. To give a desired form to the filler, I provide a mold board G which is hollowed out in its upper surface to conform to the longitudinal curves of a cigar (see Figs. 6 and 7). The mold board is removably attached to the carriage 6, so that, if desired, mold boards of difierent forms may be used. The mold board has ayielding apron G The apron G is secured at its ends to the ends of the mold board so as to extend over the hollow of the board. This apron consists of soft yielding material, such as rubber, so that when a filler is drawn over the apron G said apron will yield and conform to the hollow of the mold board. is hollowed out transversely to the desired form of the filler to be made. The apron G is normally above the hollow, or on a level plane, extended across the hollow of the board. When a filler is rolled this apron G", will gradually yield to the shape of the board and form the filler longitudinally without danger of breaking it. If this apron G were omitted the roll apron would yield too abs ruptly or unevenly and endanger the filler. G is the roll apron, preferably of rubber or similar yielding material so as to conform to the curve of the hollow in board G, which is. covered with the apron G which yields to the roll apron to shape the filler. The roll apron is fastened at one end to the forward portion of the carriage G, extends loosely over The mold board employed the board G, and is secured at its opposite end to a bar 9', at the rear portion of the carriage G. The apron extends over a roller g having journal bearings in standards extending upward from the bed plate A. The carriage G, and apron operate to roll the filler in the manner described and shown in the patent above referred to and therefore needs sumes its upward position and the mold moves forward to the ejector, and the carrier a, moves back to receive another holder B; at this time the trimmings of the first charge remain in the throat-way B to be subsequently forced into the mold 13 sothat there is no waste of tobacco. An operator at the forward end of the machine places a binder on the apron G and the ejector is operated to force the charge fromthe mold B'fiinto the loop of the apron where it is rolled and deposited on the receiver 9 Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In a machine of the class described the combination with driving mechanism, of the stationary part having the throat-way, the mold, the holder, said mold and holder being respectively movable toward and from each other below and above the throat and movable in line with the throat and mechanism for causing the movements, substantially as specified.

2. The combination with the mold, the holder and the stationary part having the throat-way of the shearing blades operating horizontally between the mold and throat-way said mold and holder being movable toward and from each other and arranged respectively below and above the throat-way, substantially as specified.

3. The combination with the mold, the stationary throat-way and holder movable above the throat-way and in line therewith, each substantially cigar-shaped in cross-section, of the cross-head, the plunger, having a yielding connection with the cross-head and means for moving the cross-head vertically, substantially as specified.

4. The combination with the stationary throat-way, themold and the holder the said mold and holder being movable in line with the throat-way, of the cross-head, means for operating the same, a plunger carried by the cross-head and having a sliding connection therewith, the lever pivoted at one end to the cross-head and having connection with the combination with the fixed throat-way and plunger, and a weight adjustable on the lethe reciprocating mold below the throat-way, ver, substantially as specified. and the plunger movable through the mold,

5. The combination with the stationary of the carrier above the throat-Way and the 15 5 throat-way, the mold and the holderthe mold holder removably attached to said carrier, being below the throat-Way and the holder substantially as specified. H being above the throat-way and each movable to register with the throat-way of the LOUIs WINTER plunger and means for adjusting the pressure Witnesses: IQ of the plunger, substantially as specified. W. L. BENNEM,

6. In a machine of the class described the I V. T. WILSON. 

